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New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Edited by Clements R. Markham. Originally published in 1877 by the Hakluyt Society.

London: Hakluyt Society, 1877.. 8vo. [6]+ xxii+314pp. Light blue cloth; spine lettering and cover vignette. Blind stamped decoration and border rules to boards. Book plate on paste down. Some soiling to covers with light wear to spine tips. A very good used copy, no foxing. . Includes the first voyage to the East Indies, 1591..

London, Hakluyt Society, 1877. . 8vo, xxii, 314 pp., publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt, rebacked in blue calf gilt, new endpapers, blindstamp to title and page 49, a very good copy. Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period.Lancaster's first voyage in 1591 to the East Indies was the earliest of the English overseas Indian expeditions. His Indian voyage was an important factor in the foundation of the East India Company. In 1600 he was given command of the East India Company's first fleet. The first English East India Company factory was established at Bantam and a commercial mission dispatched to the Moluccas. The return voyage from 20 February to 11 September 1603 was speedy and prosperous, and Lancaster (whose success both in trade and diplomacy had been… Read More